Primary Teaching leading to Qualified Teacher Status BA(Hons)

Facts about Primary Teaching leading to QTS

Year of entry 2012
Qualification BA(Hons)
Application route 3 years full-time: apply through UCAS using the following codes:
XQD3 English (5–11 years) – COURSE CLOSED
XF1V Geography & History (5–11 years) – COURSE CLOSED
XC11 Science (5–11 years)
XG11 Mathematics (5–11 years)
Modules Module Listing

About this course

Why choose this course?

This course will equip you for the complex role of a primary school teacher working in a fast-changing and stimulating professional environment. You will have the opportunity to develop your expertise in a subject specialism during the course. School experience in our excellent range of partnership schools is an integral part of the curriculum.

What will you study?

You will study all the elements of the National Curriculum together with your subject specialism from one of the options. Pedagogy – the art of teaching – underpins the degree, giving you opportunities to develop a full range of professional skills. The skills you gain will be applied on school experience in each year of the programme, leading to qualifi cation across the full primary phase (5–11 years of age).

Module listing

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

  • Professional Studies
  • Subjects: English, Maths, Science and Technology, ICT, The Arts, Humanities
  • School Experience
  • Subject Specialism

Year 2

  • As Year 1, but with two modules in your subject specialism and a longer school experience, plus a Language and Culture option

Year 3

  • As Year 2, with the subject specialism continued and a 10-week school experience, plus options in The Arts, Humanities, Physical Education and Languages

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